Ambrogio Maestri and Jessica Pratt sing Si vendetta tremenda vendetta, a duet for soprano and baritone, from the Italian opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi
English Translation:
RIGOLETTO
No, old man, you're wrong … you shall be avenged.
passionately addressing the portrait
Yes, revenge, terrible revenge is all that my heart desires.
The hour of your punishment hastens on,
that hour which will be your last.
Like a thunderbolt from the hand of God,
the jester's revenge shall strike you down.
GILDA
O my father, what a fierce joy
flashes in your eyes!
Forgive him: and then we too may hear
the voice of pardon from Heaven.
Forgive him!
RIGOLETTO
Revenge! Revenge! No! No!
GILDA
(He betrayed me, yet I love him; great God,
I ask for pity on this faithless man!)
RIGOLETTO
Like a thunderbolt, etc.
GILDA
Forgive him, etc.